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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: network?
Date: 1998/01/24
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Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> Multi-User Dungeon (or whatever) games are a good way to learn Ada,
> especially multi-tasking.  Conversely, Ada is a good language for this sort
> of game, precisely because of its multi-tasking facilities.

I disagree. I think a (tcp/ip) network server would be easier to
implement. It would require multitasking, etc. And it would be useful.

As I see it the most useful servers written in Ada would be a name
server, a smtp server and a web server. There is already one web server
written.

Greetings,



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